By Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
October 17, 2012 "Information
Clearing House"
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As is my wont, on these pages and others, over the years I have
visited and revisited various aspects of the subject of 9/11 (1
– 4). At this time, the subject appears to be worth yet another
visit. We have had two very important articles published on
what the Cheney/Bush Administration was told about the al Qaeda
threat and what they chose to pay attention to (nothing). One
has received a great deal of worthwhile attention (5), the other
not so much (6).

Both
writers have had access to much more information on just what
briefings the Cheney/Bush Administration received before the
tragic event. It has been common knowledge that the
Presidential Daily Briefing paper of August 6, 2011 warned that
Osama bin Laden was determined to strike in the United States.
To which Bush responded to its deliverer words to the effect of
“OK, you’ve covered your ass.” But Eichenwald and Parry (who
relies on the Eichenwald material a good deal but also supplies
additional information) tell us that repeated briefings on the
danger were repeatedly ignored by Cheney/Bush and their National
Security Council. In the meantime, the CIA, which was gathering
this information (yes, the CIA can do other stuff besides
organize coups against unwanted governments and simulate
“homegrown” protest movements against same when it puts its mind
to it), was going increasingly nuts over the non-response.

Furthermore, Richard Clarke, the Clinton Administration’s point
man on al-Qaeda had told Bush, Cheney and Rice on Jan. 21, 2009
that al-Qaeda was becoming increasingly dangerous and very close
attention needed to be paid. But every time Clarke said words
to the effect of “al-Qaeda” on that first day, he tells us (7),
Bush said words to the effect of “Iraq.” It happens that the
FBI’s point man on al-Qaeda, John O’Neill, in August, 2009 quit
in disgust at the inaction of his agency and the Administration
and took the job as director of security for the World Trade
Center. Tragically he was killed in the disaster. What a tale
he might have told had he lived.

And so,
the conclusion usually is, Cheney/Bush/Rice were negligent, they
were incompetent. That’s the conclusion Eichenwald and Parry
come to. But there is another possible one. And of course the
9/11 truth movement (8) has been all over this one for years.
But while the “birther” conspiracy theorists get all the access
to the mainstream media they want (I bet you didn’t know that
those Barack Obama birth announcements that appeared in the
Honolulu papers at the time were planted as part of a truly
long-range conspiracy to make him President of the United States
someday, did you?), not even the “left” mainstream media
(Rachel, et al) will touch this one. Let me just cherry-pick
some of my favorite pieces of evidence that some conspiracy
involving at least the Vice-President at some level, from
knew-something-was-coming to actually organizing it was indeed
ongoing that summer.

All
available evidence points to the famous “Building 7,” not hit by
anything, being brought down by a controlled explosion. And oh
yes, it happened to contain the City’s emergency command center
(which the so-called “America’s Mayor” [ha!] Rudy Giuliani had
placed in it against the advice of all of this security experts)
as well as the local offices of the FBI and CIA. (Files,
anyone?) Giuliani was also responsible for the failure to fund
a system that would have connected the radios of the New York
City police and fire departments. The command of the former
knew when the collapse of the Twin Towers was imminent and got
most of its men out. However, there was no way to directly
communicate the danger to the firefighters still working
inside. 343 of them perished. Interestingly enough there is a
“Firefighters for Truth” organization right there alongside the
architects and engineers (9). Giuliani was also responsible for
having the wreckage moved as quickly as possible and buried in
New Jersey swamps, before a full forensic analysis of it could
be performed. Coincidence here too, for the “Subject,
Predicate, 9/11” mayor, as Joe Biden dubbed him during the 2008
Presidential campaign? And oh yes, Giuliani was right there
with then-EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman (10) in
saying “no worries” about the inhaled smoke which, as it turns
out, will be killing people for years.

A large
group of reputable architects and engineers believe that the
Twin Towers were actually brought down the same way (see the
referenced website) as Building surely seems to have been.
There are the mysterious trades in stock of the affected
airlines just before the Day. The Attorney General John
Ashcroft had stopped flying commercial back in July.

The Cheney/Bush White
House fought very hard to prevent the formation of the 9/11
Commission, wouldn’t testify under oath before it, did not
testify in public, testified only together not separately.
There has never been an investigation of the Pentagon bombing,
much less any explanation of how a hollow aluminum tube (that is
an airliner) could penetrate two walls, leave a symmetrical 16
ft.-in-diameter whole in the inner one that it reached, and left
no airline wreckage or debris or human remains. On President
Clinton’s watch two massive al Qaeda conspiracies were averted,
the 1998 “25 airliners” plot and the 2000 “Millennium bomb” plot
to blow up LAX. During the three-day banning of commercial
flight sin the U.S., 18 members of the bin Laden family living
in the United States were flown out before the FBI could get to
interview them.

And as I
have noted before (4), “as to folks much more important than I
who have raised their own serious questions, the list includes
(thanks to Allen Roland, Ph.D., (11) and an email of 9/12/10):
9/11 Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton, 9/11 Commissioner
Timothy Roemer, 9/11 Commissioner Max Cleland (who resigned from
the Commission), 9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey, Senior Counsel
to the 9/11 Commission (John Farmer), Daniel Ellsberg, 27-year
CIA veteran, Raymond McGovern (who handled National Intelligence
Estimates), 29-year CIA veteran, former National Intelligence
Officer (NIO) and former Director of the CIA’s Office of
Regional and Political Analysis William Bill Christison, CIA
Operations Officer Lynne Larkin, decorated 20-year CIA veteran
Robert Baer, Division Chief of the CIA’s Office of Soviet
Affairs Melvin Goodman, Co-Chair of the Congressional Inquiry
into 9/11 and former Head of the Senate Intelligence Committee,
Bob Graham, Senator Patrick Leahy, Republican Congressman Ron
Paul, Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Republican
Congressman Jason Chafetz, former Democratic Senator Mike
Gravel, former Republican Senator Lincoln Chaffee, former U.S.
Democratic Congressman Dan Hamburg, and former U.S. Republican
Congressman and senior member of the House Armed Services
Committee, Curt Weldon. All of the above people have all raised
serious questions about the official conspiracy theory, as have
many other current and former intelligence and law enforcement
operatives.”

It may
well be that anyone who could and would possibly talk about
really happened on that day and the months leading up to it is
dead, from natural or other causes. But it appears so obvious
that the ignoring of all of those warnings from the CIA, for
gosh sake was not because of negligence. In reference to the
possibility of there being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,
Cheney once talked about the “The One Percent Doctrine” (12).
He held that if there was even a one percent chance that Saddam
Hussein had weapons of mass destruction that the US invasion of
Iraq was justified. Funny how he never applied that doctrine to
the overwhelming evidence that trouble right here in River City
was well on its way in the summer of 2001.

Steven
Jonas, MD, MPH is a Professor of Preventive Medicine at Stony
Brook University (NY) and author/co-author/editor/co-editor of
over 30 books.

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